Quilting Point

What is Quilting Point?

Quilting Point is an independent film collective that produces documentaries, educational material, video installations, and other audio-visual content related, but not limited, to the Middle East. It is a subsidiary of the Arab Studies Institute, the source of the research that informs Quilting Point's films and activities.

Spotlight

Gaza in Context Documentary

Gaza in Context seeks to upend the ahistorical Israeli narrative of exceptionalizing Gaza and removing it from the larger question of Palestine. Together, the practice of systematic war and the framework of unique distinction have set the Gaza Strip apart from the question of Palestine and transformed it into a national security question. By emphasizing the role of Hamas and diminishing the question of Palestine, Israel has collapsed conditions in Gaza with asymmetric conflicts, or what has come to be known as the “global war on terror,” thus eliding the consequential distinctions between Palestinians and other non-state actors. This pedagogical project is an attempt to re-frame the issue in order to place greater emphasis on the broader question of Palestine and to explain Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip in that context.

Status addresses salient matters in the political, economic, and social spheres, academia and the media. Beyond analyzing events and developments, a distinct flavor of this Journal will be its attention to cultural production and the various processes of knowledge production and information dissemination for public consumption, via social or traditional media. ​